The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
FRANCIS CHANWhere it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they’re not obeying the things that He called them to do.
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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.
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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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God’s presence is all that matters.
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